Freedom's Child : Writing

My Mommy

My Mommy

A Poem by Freedom's Child


While you were held ever so Gently in your mommy's careI was laying at the trunk of a treeWhile you were crawling towards your daddyI was crawling in ..
If you think it wise

If you think it wise

A Poem by Freedom's Child


If you think it wiseTo blacken my waterTo muddy my shoreOnly to Bulge your pocketI'll not be stillI'll be thereIn the darkest of nightA rig I will see..
One more day

One more day

A Poem by Freedom's Child


Blood coated eyes Craving minutes of peaceQuivering lips With forgotten memories of smiles Rusted shut jointsYearning for one last stroll in the parkM..
THe Green Beast

THe Green Beast

A Poem by Freedom's Child


When I was three days out from birthI paid never to know the green beastThe cost was plentiful, no love everI was most certainly taken by the green be..
A Pirate's life

A Pirate's life

A Poem by Freedom's Child


The pirate rose at sunset and took to the inlet's cemeteryWith the blankness of night he found a new intruderHe woke J.R. and raised him to the top Wa..
Beauty and Beast

Beauty and Beast

A Poem by Freedom's Child


Crinkled and cracked hands toss the line to the dockCrank the main to the top The crisp autumn winds takes jenny by the handWhite caps extend across t..
The man on the bench

The man on the bench

A Poem by Freedom's Child


Frozen lip burning wind against his faceHis clothes a spitting image of himScarred from his frost bitten toes To his blood red scalpEndlessly searchin..
Politician

Politician

A Poem by Freedom's Child


Momentary madness in a glance of sadness Look to the east to see what we've become Not a free man in his own land; or the super hero we once thought..
Lost with time

Lost with time

A Poem by Freedom's Child


A vacant glare into unknown streets A dream of a child forced away by others greed Filtered out in the vile gutter of society. Once free to i..
Start Again

Start Again

A Poem by Freedom's Child


Come with me to where the wind blows freelyLeave the vacant years of yesterday to the dwellers of the pastSet fire to the man known only as samMay lig..